Wheeler's Beer Engine

[simple one]

I might be wrong, but my beer engine is showing black malt with a 100% conversion rate. I know it isnt really used in large enough amounts to really matter. But just thought I'd bring it up incase there is something I didnt understand about brewing with black malt. And chocolate malt and roasted malt too.

[Graham]

I might be wrong, but my beer engine is showing black malt with a 100% conversion rate. I know it isnt really used in large enough amounts to really matter. But just thought I'd bring it up incase there is something I didnt understand about brewing with black malt. And chocolate malt and roasted malt too.

It doesn't do that on version 1.09, downloading the latest version should fix it.

[simple one]

Ah! yes I am still running 1.08. Silly me!

[simple one]

Done! Great brewing tool. Bought your book on the basis of the free software too.

Thanks.

[Dennis King]

used the engine again for my weekend beer. First time I`ve printed the recipe, very good. It will make a change to be able to read the writing. thanks again Graham great tool.

[garwatts]

Hi Graham
Am trying to put a recipe into v1.09 that includes honey. Have added the honey with the aid of the editor and with the same profile as sugar, but when I add 600g there is no %Grav shown for honey though for sugar it gives 9.8%. Any idea where am I going wrong? Also how can I add a screen dump to my messages?
Cheers

[Graham]

Hi Graham
Am trying to put a recipe into v1.09 that includes honey. Have added the honey with the aid of the editor and with the same profile as sugar, but when I add 600g there is no %Grav shown for honey though for sugar it gives 9.8%. Any idea where am I going wrong? Also how can I add a screen dump to my messages?
Cheers

As long as the 'Extract' figure for your honey entry in the editor is set at 375 LDK, the same as sugar, it should behave just like sugar. Check that there is a sensible extract in the Extract box and that there are no illegal characters or leading spaces.

[WishboneBrewery]

for version 1.10 can we have the File name of the Saved recipe show up when opening a saved file?

A customizable recipe to browser page would be cool, with some settings for what you want and don't want to show and a 'Notes' section to add notes in Beer Engine that would also show up on the Recipe to Browser printout.

Other than that, I find your software easier to use than any of the others.
cheers

[BarnsleyBrewer]

I made a brew yesterday with an OG of 1056 using BeerSmith, are the efficiency calculators correct on BeerSmith or Grahams Beer Engine?

With Regards to my OG of 1056, on Grahams I'm touching 86% efficiency, is this correct?, On BeerSmith the calculation is 1048 at 86%??

I know I'm getting better with my technique but would 86% be unrealistic for a home brewer?

It's the first time I've used Beer Engine v1.09, once I got my head around it, it's very good...thx Graham!

John

[yashicamat]

I made a brew yesterday with an OG of 1056 using BeerSmith, are the efficiency calculators correct on BeerSmith or Grahams Beer Engine?

With Regards to my OG of 1056, on Grahams I'm touching 86% efficiency, is this correct?, On BeerSmith the calculation is 1048 at 86%??

I know I'm getting better with my technique but would 86% be unrealistic for a home brewer?

It's the first time I've used Beer Engine v1.09, once I got my head around it, it's very good...thx Graham!

John

86% is entirely possible. I obtain 83% brewhouse normally and my sparge methods are far from ideal (grain bed temp doesn't get to sparge temp until halfway through, just have a pipe running liquor into the mashtun as I fly sparge so probably some channelling takes place too etc.).

As for the differences between the two pieces of software . . are the losses to hops/trub etc. set to the same values for both?

[garwatts]

I made a brew yesterday with an OG of 1056 using BeerSmith, are the efficiency calculators correct on BeerSmith or Grahams Beer Engine?

With Regards to my OG of 1056, on Grahams I'm touching 86% efficiency, is this correct?, On BeerSmith the calculation is 1048 at 86%??

I know I'm getting better with my technique but would 86% be unrealistic for a home brewer?

It's the first time I've used Beer Engine v1.09, once I got my head around it, it's very good...thx Graham!

John

Thats more or less the same as mine......

[Walrus81]

Hello people,

can someone enlighten me (I've tried searching but to no luck!)

Golden syrup, Sugar Invert Syrup No1,2,3,4?

Many thanks!

[ADDLED]

Nice software Graham, ive had the v9 for a few weeks and it works a treat.

A few months ago my hard drive died and i lost most of my data, but i managed to retrieve some of my old beer engine recipe files. Problem is that they wont open in the new version. The file extensions of my recent recipes is .berf but the old file i retrieved have .hgr extension. A quick check on the web tells me that .hgr is a Mac file, which is pretty wierd as ive never used a Mac.
Does anyone know what could have happened and if theres a way to make them work? It would be a bummer to lose them as theres some custom recipes including my first AG that im really keen to keep.
tks
ADDLED

[Graham]

A few months ago my hard drive died and i lost most of my data, but i managed to retrieve some of my old beer engine recipe files. Problem is that they wont open in the new version. The file extensions of my recent recipes is .berf but the old file i retrieved have .hgr extension. A quick check on the web tells me that .hgr is a Mac file, which is pretty wierd as ive never used a Mac.
Does anyone know what could have happened and if theres a way to make them work? It would be a bummer to lose them as theres some custom recipes including my first AG that im really keen to keep.
tks

I don't recall ever using .hgr as a file extension, but BeerEngine has a long history so I have probably forgotten. I will be able to recover them, assuming that they are BeerEngine files of course. If you attach them to an e-mail and send them to me, I'll sort it out. I'll P.M. my email address to you.

[ADDLED]

A few months ago my hard drive died and i lost most of my data, but i managed to retrieve some of my old beer engine recipe files. Problem is that they wont open in the new version. The file extensions of my recent recipes is .berf but the old file i retrieved have .hgr extension. A quick check on the web tells me that .hgr is a Mac file, which is pretty wierd as ive never used a Mac.
Does anyone know what could have happened and if theres a way to make them work? It would be a bummer to lose them as theres some custom recipes including my first AG that im really keen to keep.
tks

I don't recall ever using .hgr as a file extension, but BeerEngine has a long history so I have probably forgotten. I will be able to recover them, assuming that they are BeerEngine files of course. If you attach them to an e-mail and send them to me, I'll sort it out. I'll P.M. my email address to you.

Tks Graham, thats good of you. Im flummoxed too so maybe the files got corrupted somehow.